Le Più Belle Canzoni Italiane di Sempre

E.A. Poe is another band from the mass of those 70's Italian bands, who recorded just one album in their career and disappeared soon after due to the lack of promotion. The album contains elements both of Symphonic Rock and Classic Progressive Rock, making their style quite abstract and undefienable. Some cuts in ''Generazioni'' are very well-crafted, dominated by the dark organ sounds, light classical piano, soft vocals and pastoral acoustic guitars (and even some mandolin), resembling to a Symphonic Rock band, close to the sound of Premiata Forneria Marconi. In some others it's the star of guitarist Beppe Ronco, who really signs. Leaving his pastoral mood apart, he fills the musicianship with fast guitar chords and jazzy passages, which battle with Giorgio Foti's organ all the time…

The band is born in 1972 around the leader Raimondo Fantuzzi (guitar, vocal), but just with only a 45 rpm record dated 1981. Now the first official album "Motivi di Sempre": 6 tracks full of the magic of classic italian prog-rock sound, close to the textures of PFM and keyboards progressions of Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, with sweet melodies and pastoral moments.

The chamber cantata flourished in Italy as a counterpart to public opera and oratorio, cultivated by aristocratic patrons for their personal enjoyment. Perhaps because of its essentially private origins, this pervasive Baroque form remains little known today. During his years in Italy (1706-1710), George Frideric Handel composed nearly 100 cantatas for a series of important patrons, but they have tended to be passed over in favor of his larger operas, oratorios, concertos and orchestral suites. The plan of La Risonanza to perform and record all of the cantatas with instrumental accompaniment (about one-third of the total) is therefore of signal importance for all music lovers, as it will bring this extraordinarily beautiful music once again to life (2006-2009).